About James "The Sheriff" Veitch, Sr.

James immigrated to the colony of Maryland where he was granted 70 acres of land on the north side of the Patexent River, in Patuxent (now Calvert) County. He became Deputy Sheriffe in 1653 and Sheriffe in 1655. In 1657 James paid one cow for the passage of his fiancee, Mary Gakerlin, a Welch lass to the New World. Six children are known.

The American descendents of this family runs into the thousands. -------------------- aternate birth place